Privacy oriented OS for an old phone?

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It is important to note that Privacy Guides does not recommend using “debloaters” for Android. One of our team members talks about this here:

Stock Android Guide

We don’t recommend that you bother with “debloating” as the apps removed will be replaced as soon as you get a new system image. You cannot remove Google apps unless you have a completely new system image (pushed by system updater, or flashed with fastboot). We do not suggest disabling any dm-verity features or unlocking your bootloader to do this as Android does various checks of the device state during the boot process, this is to ensure that your device hasn’t been modified by persistent m…